DonFerrari said:
chakkra said:
DonFerrari said:
DroidKnight said:
DonFerrari said:
MS had months of pre-order to gauge demand for launch, so if they supplied just a little over the Pre-Order to those countries then it would be sold out no matter what. This can't really show if it sold good or not, I hope it had healthy sales. From what I have seem on several posts through VGC, seems like Xbox Series worldwide sold about 1.1M or so, a little above X1. |
Pre-orders didn't go live till Sept. 22nd. 7 weeks wouldn't of been enough time to gauge demand and then then tell the factories how many to make and then how many to ship. Everything that could be produced was produced and shipped. The only thing pre-orders showed was that more people wanted an Xbox than were going to be available. Demand for the Xbox will continue to outpace supply for many more months. By the time supply starts to meet demand, Microsoft should provide a console exclusive to further add to demand. If not, sales will drop. |
7 weeks (and prior to that mindshare and social media discussion) would be enough to decide the amount of inventory that would be send to each territory even if didn't impact total production. So it would be very unlikely that Xbox wouldn't be sold out. We can't really determine if it will sell good or bad from now on based solely on that (even more without knowing how much was sent). |
If it was as easy as you put it, neither the XSS nor the PS5 would have stock issues at the moment since they both had 7 weeks to gauge the demand. |
I said it was easy? And will ignore that platform holders love to say they are sold out on launch? As long as you are nearly meeting demand while keeping sold out you are at a very good PR position without leaving to much revenue not received. |
I don't think either MS or Sony would be happy selling fewer units just so they could say that they were sold out. At the end of the day, "we sold 2m units at launch" sounds much better than "we were sold out," and it is much more profitable.
